Operation Blog is ACTIVE

OK students...this is the platform upon which students will share their knowledge and understanding of the great marker event of 20th century world history: World War 2. The rules are simple:

1. All students must make at least one post to this blog. Posts are in the form of reflections, opinions, links to articles, video, music, images, etc. Students must relate the nature of their posts to a theme of the conflict and make commentary.

2. All students must make at least one comment on another students post. Comments must be thoughtful, argumentative if inclined, insightful, or you my pose some question leads to another post by you or another classmate.

3. You must tag your post with the applicable theme(s).

4. Grades will be based on an holistic scoring scale which heavily weights the frequency and substance of posts and comments. Minimum participation equates to minimum scores for this class exercise.

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

1942- Why is this year considered the critical period of the war in EUROPE

Group: Nicky, Adisa, Kat, Rashmika

By 1942, Germany dominated most of Europe, this particular was considered as critical because at this point it looked like Hitler is about to take over the whole of Europe and if the Allied powers don't take the necessary actions to stop the Germans, Europe might never return to its normal state. In the year 1942 Germany had invaded and was already occupying Czechoslovakia, Poland, France, Belgium, Austria, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, northern France, Serbia
, parts of northern Greece, and territories in eastern Europe which includes Italy, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Finland, Croatia, and Vichy France. The Allied powers, especially the British did not step in to stop this outrageous act because they were busy defending their own homeland, which the Germans were currently bombing. The Allied soldiers lacked experience, and they were short of supplies, 1942 ended with the Germans straightening their defenses lines, and the Allied powers came to a halt.
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  1. RafaelMarch 6, 2010 at 11:27 PM

    In my opinion I think that the year 1942 was consider a critical point in the war because clearly the allies can see that the axis have most of Europe conquered and this is like the period where the war determines a winner and it is like a "match point" in a game where if the allied forces lose then the victory of axis is inevitable.

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